All too often, however, the gunman gets away after the gunplay ends in bloodshed.

"Maybe it's the congestion, the frustration with the growing traffic problems of the area," Rossmann said. "You can take the nicest people, the nicest housewife and the nicest businessman, and they are transformed into monsters once they get behind a steering wheel."

The road warriors ride everywhere.

In Los Angeles, four people have died and more than a dozen have been wounded in the past year.

In Orlando, a woman shot on March 19 has a bullet lodged in her brain stem. In Lake Worth, a Lantana man survived the bullet in the back that he got last August during a shooting on I-95.

And, in Broward County, investigators are still looking for the gunman who shot Irving Ribler, 26, of Hallandale to death on Feb. 27 as he drove north on the interstate near Sample Road.

The stories have not been lost on Whitney, one of the latest but luckiest victims of expressway violence. The bullet fired on April 13 missed him by inches.

"You hear about the shootings all the time," Whitney said. "But, when it happens to you, it just scares you to death. If anyone had been riding in the back seat of my car, they would have been shot right in the back."

Whitney, a drummer in a band called Malicious Damage, said he was driving home from a practice at the Musician's Exchange in Fort Lauderdale when the shooting occurred in the northbound lanes.

"When I got on at Sunrise (Boulevard), this car just came roaring up behind me and cut me off," Whitney said. "I flashed my bright lights at him and passed him. I didn't think anything more about it."

That is, not until Whitney looked to his right while preparing to take the Commercial Boulevard exit. The motorist, later identified as Andreu, was pointing a pistol at Whitney's car, troopers said.

"All of a sudden, I just heard a bang," Whitney said. "I looked in my rear view mirror and saw that my rear window was shattered."

The bullet lodged in a tomtom drum in the back seat. Whitney pulled off the expressway and called the Highway Patrol. He was able to give troopers a description of Andreu and the tag number of his red Chevrolet Z-28, troopers said.

"Not exactly the most inconspicuous car you can drive if you want to go around shooting at people," Rossmann said.

Investigators learned that Andreu was living in Coral Springs. Warrants charging him with shooting into an occupied vehicle, aggravated assault and discharging a firearm in a public place were issued on Wednesday after he failed to surrender as promised to authorities, Rossmann said.

Whitney said he has learned a few lessons of his own from the shooting.

"I don't drive on I-95 anymore," he said. "And I'll never flash my bright lights at anyone, not even if they cut in front of me, cut me off or run me off the road."